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Excerpt from Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue, Vol. 1 But when the jpirit of man, which is the candle qf the lord, infiead of direeting to him, and terminating its views in him, is alienated from his fervice and honour when through inattention, or the infatuations of vice, it difcovers not him, from whom it de rives all its powers of illuminating the foul, and guiding it to true happinefs; when beings who are particularly fitted, and mutt be allowed, therefore, to have been formed on purpofe, for a ferious Iearch and difquifition after Deity, feldom, or never, afk them felves this quefiion - Where is god our maher how may he be known, and more completely known? In what manner ferved, his favour fecured, and his benefits acknovvledged with an affec tionate and reverent gratitude i - this is not only fpurning at inge unity, and at all decency of charaeter, 'but an offence againfi our peculiar make, and giving up the mot't eminent prerogatives and advantages of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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